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Ed Finn
October 2007: The Beginning of the End?
The global corporate bulwark is finally showing cracks Signs and portents are pointing at last to a crumbling of confidence in the global “free market” system. An economic mechanism fuelled…
September 2007: Challenging the Aristocrats
Inequality is no longer just offensive, it’s intolerable “There is the multitude, and there are the natural leaders. Wealth, birth and culture mark out the man to whom a community…
July 2007: The Fateful Summer of ’62
Medicare’s foes fail to stop its birth in Saskatchewan This is the 40th anniversary of the establishment of national public health care in Canada, with the passage of the Canada…
June 2007: The Economic Costs of Poverty
Ending child poverty has economic as well as moral benefits The main arguments raised for reducing the appallingly high rate of childhood poverty in Canada have mostly focused on its…
May 2007: Down in the Dumps? Cheer Up!
It’s too early to celebrate, but things could be a lot worse You may have missed the news about a recent study by the Mayo Clinic on optimism and pessimism….
April 2007: Integration or disintegration?
Powerful business and political leaders on both sides of the border are working hard, both openly and stealthily, to bind Canada more closely to the United States. It’s billed as…
March 2007: Debunking The “Unaffordability” Myth
No excuse for any Canadian to be poor, hungry, homeless Mathematics is not my forte. I was always more interested in words than numbers. But working closely with researchers and…
February 2007: When Greed Has No Limits
Outsourcing and job “restructuring” swell corporate profits Most private sector employers have always regarded their employees as necessary evils, and unions as UNnecessary evils. When profits have to be shared…
December 2006: Inequality and Icarus
What’s inequality got to do with global warming? A lot Recent statistics from the United Nations on the distribution of the world’s wealth tell us that the number of people…
Living With Uncle
Canada-US Relations in an Age of Empire Download 79.72 KB | 279 pages…
November 2006: Thinking the Apocalyptic Unthinkable
Oil-dependent civilization will end before century does Whether the human species will survive this century is now—or should be—the main concern of everyone. It’s no longer a far-fetched Chicken Little…
October 2006: The Corporate Frankenstein Monster
Plundering, pillaging, and polluting the planet for profit Earlier this year, I wrote a three-part series under the overall theme I called “the Big Business Bang Theory,” in which I…
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